Re: Records in Haskell

2012-01-01 Thread Greg Weber
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Frege has a detailed explanation of the semantics of its record > implementation, and the language is *very* similar to Haskell. Lets just > start by using Frege's document as the proposal. We can start a new wiki > page as discussions

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-01 Thread Ryan Newton
I haven't entirely followed this and I see that it's been split over multiple threads. Did "cabal install random" actually fail for you under ghc-7.4.0.20111219? If so I'd love to know about it as the maintainer of the "random" package. (It seems to work for me for random-1.0.1.1.) That said, I

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-01 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: >> Today, it is very unusual to use GHC by itself. >> To use Haskell, you install the Haskell Platform. >> That is GHC together with Cabal and a basic >> set of libraries. It is very easy to install. Wolfram Kahl wrote: > However, since you are willing and able to test bleeding-edge versi